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Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor

16 reviews

amye's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Vomit

Moderate: Abandonment, Eating disorder, Racism, and Homophobia

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Drug use, and Pedophilia

someonelikeblue's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Homophobia, Misogyny, Cancer, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood and Vomit

annuich's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Self harm, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, Mental illness, Homophobia, Drug use, Death, and Cancer

mmatti300's review

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This book was so close to a five star in a lot of ways, except for the fact that I actually hated the central story. I found Lionel, Charles, and Sophie’s story to be way too similar to real life and with more of the subtle abuses (to the point where it was so subtle that others may not have seen their relationship as inherently abusive). However, Anne of Cleves, What Made them Made You, and Mass were all 5 stars for me, and if Lionel and Charles had been more like those this would have been a 5 star collection. I also was not expecting it to have a central story like it did. Instead of a short story collection, this is more of a novella with short stories that branch off of it attached. What Brandon Taylor does do really well, and shows in this book, is offering a glimpse into real life and the betrayal and filthy nature of real people. And I really appreciated how, because each story was like a snapshot of one persons life, it ended in a vague spot — open to countless questions. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, and Cancer

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, Racial slurs, Racism, and Outing

pippyv's review

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Fun main story but the other short stories detracted heavily. The descriptions of the gay women in the one story they featured in, while not entirely inaccurate, were generic and lifeless compared with the standard set by male characters of any sexuality in the rest of the book and overall it was a bit insultingly lazy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Medical content, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Excrement, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Eating disorder

suzyreadsbooks's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Death of parent, Cancer, Animal death, Child abuse, Medical trauma, and Mental illness